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Hanoi, Vietnam


Grand, gracious and graceful – Hanoi’s favourite hotel tickles the pleasure receptors and draws an eclectic crowd

Reviewed by Tom Bell

Sofitel Metropole, Vietnam, Overview
 

SOFITEL METROPOLE - REVIEW

If you love big hotels, you’ll fall head over heels for this grand dame of French colonialism. It's one of Asia’s finest – as good as the city in which it stands – and its enormous central courtyard holds gardens, swimming pool, restaurants and a bar: the best place in town for cocktails before supper. Flaming torches flicker in the night, uniformed waiters swoop with martinis… even the stoniest heart will know a moment’s happiness here.

Bedrooms may not be the strongest suit, not because their colonial delights fail to seduce – far from it – but merely because you are away for the glitter and gossip. Make sure you settle in for afternoon tea (there is a chocolate buffet of epic proportions), while Spices Garden restaurant cooks up some of the best Asian food you’ll ever eat. As for the ladies who run reception: huge smiles, gorgeous uniforms and an eager willingness to help their guests. It’s got all the right ingredients for a perfect stay, and with the Hoan Kiem Lake right on your doorstep, you couldn’t be better placed to explore downtown Hanoi.

     
HIGHS

  • The chocolate buffet at afternoon tea is unmissable
  • There are bells by pool loungers with which to summons a waiter
  • Delicious food, the best we tasted in Vietnam
  • Hanoi, a yard of Vietnam’s finest cloth and one of Indochina’s great cities

  LOWS

  • Standard bedrooms don’t have quite the flair you expect of them
  • It’s a big hotel and breakfast can get very busy
  • You get ¾-size bath tubs in the some of the less expensive rooms

     
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Name Sofitel Metropole Location District 1 Hanoi, Hanoi & North
Type Historic Hotel: 363 rooms and suites Country Vietnam
Price Guide Dbl: $245-416 BB;
Suites: $588-2,230 BB
Open All year

DISTANCES Airport: 25km Nearest Shops: 0.1km Nearest restaurant: 0.1km Beach: 0km



 
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